My guest this week would love to write MADAME FATAL for DC Comics. Charles Battersby talked to me about real life transphobia born from fiction like comics and video games. Read more…
Winning points about representation: racial diversity, sexual diversity, gender diversity (binary but kind of balanced with supporting female characters), mental illness sensitivity, fetish/kink sensitivity (paramedics see everything) Read more…
SIMON TAM founded the “Chinatown Dance Rock†band called THE SLANTS talks about cultural privilege and appropriation in Asian-American music, arts, comic cons plus a ton of great discussion about intersectional social justice. Read more…
Checklists/questions to reference as a tool while you’re writing so that there aren’t gaping holes in the character development when your novel is in people’s hands. Read more…